by Nicolas Mertens | Jun 11, 2021 | Barriers to Health Care, Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Equity Work, Health of Bears, Medical Education, Uncategorized |
Talking with gay male patients about cardiovascular health What is a Bear? Bears are a sub-group of gay men generally identified by their larger body size, and facial and body hair which connects them to community and with sexual partners. In the medical clinic, they...
by Nicolas Mertens | Jun 11, 2021 | Barriers to Health Care, Blog, Equity Work, Medical Education, Transgender Health, Uncategorized |
For healthcare providers of all specialties Not just family doctors. Nurses and nurse practitioners as well. The Primary Care Toolkit from Trans Care BC provides contagious guidelines for the care of our transgender patients. Updated in December 2020, this resource...
by Nicolas Mertens | Jun 10, 2021 | Barriers to Health Care, Equity Work, Medical Education, Transgender Health, Uncategorized |
Rainbow Health Ontario has created an excellent resource for healthcare providers and trainees with regards to providing gender-affirming care. Initially launched in 2016, the Trans Primary Care Guide was a recently updated along with the 4th edition of the primary...
by Marcus Greatheart | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Medical Education, Uncategorized |
We know that doctors of different types and stripes have different appointment lengths, and if you’re working on an inpatient service you may not have a specific schedule. Regardless of whether you have eight, fifteen or thirty minutes (like I do in my clinic...
by Marcus Greatheart | May 31, 2021 | Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Medical Education, Uncategorized |
The laundry list A common gripe from doctors is the patient who arrives with a never-ending list of issues. “These patients have unrealistic expectations,” they complain. “We can’t possibly address them all in the short time we have.” We might think that...
by Marcus Greatheart | May 28, 2021 | Blog, Communication Skills for Doctors, Medical Education |
Ask ‘What else?’ As doctors, there are few things more frustrating than attending a department or other meeting without a clear agenda, so it makes sense that we and our patients have the same expectation of why we are meeting and why we’re gathering and what we’re...
